How to navigate to a directory in C with Cygwin

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I m trying to install PyQt4 so I can mess around with it  The installation guide said I had to install Sip  The last step to installing Sip is to use the make install command  Windows doesn t have that  so I looked it up and everything I saw said to install Cygwin  So I did  But   sip is in C  Python31 sip   Can I run this from the Cygwin command  If so  how would I do that   Or can I run this from the normal windows command prompt   If so  how would I go about that

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you can try this   cygdrive c directoryname

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Create a file named  overrideBashCdForWindowsPaths  in your HOME folder  Paste the following lines into that file and save it      bin bash  function cd         CD PATH    history   tail -1   sed -e  s     FUNCNAME 0   s   g         if   -z    CD PATH   -o    CD PATH            then         CD PATH    HOME       fi      builtin cd    cygpath   CD PATH        Next  type the following command in a terminal  while you are in your HOME folder   echo    overrideBashCdForWindowsPaths   gt  gt   bashrc   Close your terminal and open a new one  You can now easily change into that Windows folder by simply typing  cd C  Python31 sip   The script reads the last command  extracts the path and passes it to Cygwin s path-conversion tool  By naming the function  cd  we sort of  override  Bash s builtin  cd  and delegate the actual call to it in the very last line

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On a related note  you may also like   shopt -s autocd   This allows you to cd a dir by just typing in the dir   user host      cygdrive d cd  cygdrive d  user host  cygdrive d      To make is persistent you should add it to your    bashrc

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cd C     gt   Press enter when you see this line   You are now in the C drive

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Something that is worth mentioning here is that Cygwin s cygpath  still does not handle spaced Windows paths properly  especially in Bash scripts running under Cygwin  The trick is to understand how Cygwin interprets quotes in Bash scripts   The following does not work      bin bash TBDIR   cygdrive c Program  Files    x86   MyDir    if   -d    TBDIR      then      echo  Found MyDir directory at    TBDIR       cd   TBDIR  else      echo  MyDir program directory not found       echo  Wrong DIR path    TBDIR       exit 1 fi   But this does work      bin bash   Cygwin-ism  No quotes  TBDIR  cygdrive c Program  Files    x86   MyDir   if   -d    TBDIR      then        As far as I know  there is currently no known workaround using cygpath  that can properly handle spaces in the bash scripting context but you can use quotes in your scripts

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You already accepted an answer  but I just thought I d mention that the following also works in Cygwin   cd  C  Foo    I think the cd  cygdrive c method is better  but sometimes it s useful to know that you can do this too

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Define a variable in  bashrc    export C  cygdrive c   then you can use  cd  C    and the tab autocompletes correctly  please include the   at the end

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Use   cd  cygdrive c

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I ll add something that helps me out a lot with cygwin   Whenever setting up a new system  I always do this  ln -s  cygdrive c  c   This creates a symbolic link to  cygdrive c with a new file called  c  in the home directory    Then you can do this in your shell  cd  c Foo cd  c    Very handy

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As you ll probably want to do this often  add aliases into your  bashrc file  like   alias cdc  cd  cygdrive c  alias cdp  cd  cygdrive p    Then you can just type on the command line   cdc

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The one I like is   cd C   To have linux like feel then do   ln -s  cygdrive c folder   folder   and use this like    folder

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You can just use  cd C  Users

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cd c  is supported now in cygwin

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